They rightly say that this was not true of the Enlightenment, an age in which the public began again to look to philosophers as guides. Hume and Rousseau were walking (if conflicting) icons of the ...

Jewish philosophers in the Enlightenment era. Any version of universalism relevant to a more attentive, pluralistic, and postcolonial outlook would balance the urgent current need for a universalistic ...

Other themes- democracy, liberalism, constitutional government, free speech- and so on were mere corollaries to the bedrock , foundational ideas or ideals of the West’s ‘enlightenment’. Gradually and ...

Anyone interested in the period – whether friend or foe – should read this book.”-- Dr. Samuel Fleischacker, Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago “The Pragmatic Enlightenment ...